The Summit football team entered the third game of its 2015 season with a 2-0 record. The Hilltoppers also came to Warren Hills with a highly-impressive mark of 67-4 (.944) since the beginning of the 2009 season. Seeking to go 3-0, Summit would have no idea – nor would anyone else – what kind of […]
ROSELLE PARK – For a team that finished .500, the Panthers last year still reached the North 2, Group 1 playoffs – and lost a close first-round game on the road – outscored 10 foes by a margin of just over 100 points and produced two shutouts. Roselle Park was 2-2 at home and 3-3 […]
The Union girls’ soccer team, sparked by one of the top players in North Jersey in senior Nneka Moneme, will open its season Sept. 10 at New Providence. The first home game is Sept. 13 vs. Westfield. One year after reaching the 2014 Union County Tournament championship game, the Farmers fashioned a 9-14 record, including […]
The defending boys’ soccer Group 1 state champion Brearley Bears will wrap their scrimmage schedule Aug. 31 at North Plainfield after having faced Governor Livingston on the road and Linden at home. Brearley captured its second Group 1 state title outright last season, its third overall and its second in three years when it defeated […]
ROSELLE – The Rams have qualified for the playoffs 12 times, but have never made it three years in a row. Roselle will – once again – attempt to reach that lofty goal for the first time, led by three-year starter Gerald Hairston III (6-2, 230) at quarterback. The mobile, southpaw-throwing, senior signal-caller has been […]
Jamil Jackson, Class of 1989, was just hired as the new head football coach at Elizabeth, succeeding John Quinn, who was in charge for six seasons from 2010-2015. Jackson, who as a senior starred on Elizabeth’s 1988 North 2, Group 4 state championship team, is Elizabeth’s 17th head football coach. The Elizabeth Board of Education […]
Advances to semifinals of her women's 400-meter hurdles competition
SCOTCH PLAINS – With the whole world watching – including the entire galaxy along Martine Avenue in Scotch Plains – 17-year-old track sensation Sydney McLaughlin continued to amaze. This time the stage was as grand as it comes – the 2016 Rio Olympics. McLaughlin, who just turned 17 on Aug. 7 and who in a […]
Dave Curtin, who made his mark in Union and Essex counties as a football and track and field coach and also as an athletic director, passed away Aug. 10 after a battle with cancer and heart failure. Curtin, who had just turned 58, grew up in Kenilworth and graduated from Kenilworth’s Brearley Regional High School […]
Below are Union County football scrimmages and complete Union County football schedules for the upcoming 2016 season (for scrimmages, contact athletic directors to be sure): SCRIMMAGES UNION FARMERS Aug. 17 Multiple teams, 10 a.m. Union, Madison, Irvington, Randolph Aug. 23 at Phillipsburg, 4 p.m. Phillipsburg, Union, Warren Hills ROSELLE PARK PANTHERS Aug. 17 Delaware Valley, […]
This summer’s third annual Union Farmer Soccer Camp can be termed a success mostly based on the following statement: “We had over 190 kids attend this year’s camp from our community,” said Camp Director Lester Lembryk, the head boys’ soccer coach at UHS since 2008. The camp ran at Union High School the last week […]